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Hello all,

At our church we have a ESI IVX-C class generation II phone system. We're a small church so it fills our needs nicely. However, the subject of the hard drive was brought up. Is it possible to convert the mechanical hard drive to a SSD Flash drive? Like I said we're a small church and a $5000 for a ESI-100 phone system replacement is sort of out of our budget.

Thanks for any advice you guys could give

I don't know of any SSD solution for the C-Class - We have quite a few C-Class's out, (installed base) I just looked "briefly" on the ESI reseller site for any SSD replacements and found nothing - HD's are generally better these days and a new one might last 10 years with a little luck, but I do know where you're coming from. If your old drive is still working, I'd get it backed up, then upgrade to the latest firmware version, backup again, then place the order for the new drive. Many times (maybe every time) a backup created in a previous version won't restore in the new firmware version (esp. if that middle digit in the firmware version number doesn't match)

The C class will take a SSD memory module. Make sure you make a back-up of your current load and programming. The new memory module from ESI will have the latest firmware load and prompts. When you load the back-up, you may lose some prompts and VM messages.

Rcaman

Two things jump out at me .... first is if you are thinking about an upgrade there is no need whatsoever for a 100. A 50L starts off equipped for 4 lines and 8 phones and grows from there.

Second is that the C Class is such a simple system you will probably find that reprogramming it and rerecording your greetings can all be done in less than an hour so rather than mess around with backups and upgrading software etc just start from scratch.

I agree. The 50L would meet the needs, is already on a SSD memory module and has a few features that the C class does not have. You can get a Comm Server 50L for a lot less than $5K.

Rcaman

Thank you all so much for your replies. It's been a great help. However, I was mistaken with the phone system. It's not a C-Class it's a E-Class Generation II. I don't know if it's that important. Next time I'll put on my glasses!

some of the newer style E class systems could have either a Flash or HD.

Thanks.

How would I know if this one would be able to upgrade to Flash?

They all are. ESI has a kit to convert the hard drive to a SSD.

Rcaman

if you take off the cover, and see if there is a 50 pin connector on the main board just below where the cards plug into. some of the 72e cabinets did Not have this, they had to use the hard drive.if the 50 pin connector is there, that is where the Flash drive would go.